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Last broadcast on Tue, 6 Jul 2010, 16:30 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
Sue Macgregor talks favourite paperbacks with Helen Fraser, the Chief Executive of the Girls' Day School Trust, and writer and comic performer Neil Innes. Before taking up her current post Helen spent her entire career in publishing, beginning with a brief stint as a sales assistant at Foyles bookshop and ending up as Managing Director of Penguin. Neil was one of the founder members of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and went on to write and perform with Monty Python's Flying Circus and the Rutles. He's well-known for his BBC2 show, The Innes Book of Records and has a one-man show modestly entitled 'A People's Guide to World Domination.'
Producer: Sara Davies.
BOOKS FEATURED IN THE PROGRAMME
Helen Fraser's choice:
When We Were Bad: A Novel by Charlotte Mendelson
Publ. Picador
Neil Innes' choice:
Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
Publ. Canongate
Sue MacGregor's choice:
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Publ. Fourth Estate
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Tue 6 Jul 201016:30

